Definitions
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- adverb In a
rangy manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Harbour, 49, is a rangily tall redhead, brought up in the West Country, with an easy grin and friendly manner.
Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour
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Nodine is a rangily handsome fortysomething with lightning-fast performance circuitry – think Jim Carrey without the manic desire to please - and it's riveting to watch him play physical and verbal pinball, careening from floor-cleaning theory to racist guilt while galvanised by twitchy cross-currents of muscular activity.
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Diana actually looked her best at her most informal, jumping rangily out of her car for lunch at Le Caprice with Rosa Monckton, the former U.K. president of Tiffany.
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I was tall and rangily powerful; I was shock-headed and naked but for a wolf hide girt about my loins.
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They brought him to the deck of the Venturer - a tall, dark, rangily built man, ashy with fear of his captors, who were ogres of that coast.
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Stretching, she took a bottle of Southern Comfort from a high cupboard shelf, poured a coffee cup half full, and, leaning rangily against the counter, swallowed.
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Stretching, she took a bottle of Southern Comfort from a high cupboard shelf, poured a coffee cup half 'full, and, leaning rangily against the counter, swallowed.
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Tall, rangily muscled, and blond as his waking self-blue of eye and fleet of foot, bursting with easy laughter and, in a tight corner, wizard-master of a flickering snake's tongue in the shape of a curved blade of jungled Kled-he loved songs, a good fight, and sometimes girls.
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Stretching, she took a bottle of Southern Comfort from a high cupboard shelf, poured a coffee cup half full, and, leaning rangily against the counter, swallowed.
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Stretching, she took a bottle of Southern Comfort from a high cupboard shelf, poured a coffee cup half full, and, leaning rangily against the counter, swallowed.
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